No Flow is the New Flow

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It is increasingly rare to find coding tasks where doing it manually will be more efficient than packaging the task clearly for a set of agents to tackle it. Case in point, we all felt the phase transition that happened between end of last year and beginning of this year. This has important consequences on what I think are the three core drivers that make coding so attractive to me: (i) They've removed the "hard tedious part" of our job that most of us were thriving for. I've always loved coding because it was hard. That feeling of accomplishment when all the parts come together and the system finally "works" after overcoming difficulty and tediousness. This was the craft, the style, the art of computer programming. All pretty much flushed down the toilets. (ii) They've deprived us from the state of "flow" that many of us were thriving for. That unique experience where time flies, fully immersed in the task at hand. This state of "flow" was a big part of the appeal for coding to me. Co

March 11, 2026 That's it, coding agents are just better than us at most well-defined, well-packaged coding tasks. It is increasingly rare to find coding tasks where doing it manually will be more efficient than packaging the task clearly for a set of agents to tackle it. Case in point, we all felt the phase transition that happened between end of last year and beginning of this year. This has important consequences on what I think are the three core drivers that make coding so attractive to me: (i) They've removed the "hard tedious part" of our job that most of us were thriving for. I've…

No Flow is the New Flow

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